Word: trade
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bronson, L. S., claimed that the Mills bill was a jump at free trade. The country has flourished under the tariff to a remarkable degree. The speaker then touched upon Cleveland's attitude in civil service and the fisheries question...
...productive of the laborer. Now, if tariff does not make high wages, a reduction does not make low. If this were so, this is just what the manufacturers would want. The trouble is it would reduce not wages but profits. With raw materials free, the cotton and every trade would be extended and wages would not fall certainly...
...striking instance of what a body of students clubbed together in a particular purpose can do for the benefit of their college. To the Finance Club we are indebted for one of the most instructive lectures ever given in Sanders Theatre. We are essentially the disciples of Free Trade at Harvard, and it is only fair that the other side should have a chance to defend itself. Such an opportunity was given last night, and though we may still cling to our free trade dogmas we are at least gratificd to hear a manly and independent exposition of the doctrines...
...tariff of 1883 has a free list of 380 articles, many of which have been added since the war, and a large number of duties have been materially lessened. England is constantly pointed out to us as an example of a country whose prosperity is due to free trade, but even England employs protection when it is for her interest to do so. Look at her system of subsidizing her shipping. Up to 1885 she had already paid $273.563,000 in protecting and developing her commerce by means of mail subsidies. It is said that the present tariff needs reform...
...economics makes it unnecessary for us to assert his ability to treat the question he has chosen for the subject of his lecture. The question of Protection is one that is always interesting; but it is peculiarly so at present, when the merits of the doctrines of Free Trade and Protection are to come forward so strongly in the Tariff issue now before the country...